Ice Road Trucker, Lisa.
Posted on 09/21/2011 9:46:35 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
A few years ago many Americans would have turned their noses up at a blue collar job with a fatality rate of 116 per 100k and a much higher injury rate.
Not any more.
In this economy plenty of the 14,000,000 unemployed would be glad to get work as a fisherman or other dangerous jobs.
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Ice Road Trucker, Lisa.
I’ll take the co-driver job, thank you.
I would too before she became more and more airheaded.
The most dangerous jobs are all male dominated occupations. That is not “fair.” The feminazis should be demanding equality when it comes to getting killed on the job.
Help Wanted: looking for motivated individual to be Barney Frank’s Living Chair.
I vote for large animal veterinarian from experience.
The most dangerous job in America used to be “Knowing Bill Clinton personally”.
Highest death-rates of any known profession.
Actually, the most dangerous job is President of the United States. I believe you have about a 10 percent chance of being assassinated.
I’m pretty sure the survival rates for space shuttle astronauts is not much better either.
RE: I vote for large animal veterinarian from experience.
How about aireal acrobat or Lion Tamer?
Not for last year or the last 49. Rate for ths last 49 years is zero.
The new girl, jackie? shows promise ;)
Structural ironworker was in the top three for decades and the fact it is not anywhere on this list suggests it was overlooked. Or, it may be the small number of bridge and tall building projects during the sample period.
At one time, was able to say I had worked 2 out of the top 3 - commerical fishing never appealed to me.
True, although Reagan was shot and almost killed.
Not enough data....
Large animal vet ... yep, high potential for getting messed up.
I was surprised that farming and ranching stats did not cite work with livestock.
DH, DS 1 and 2 and FIL are pretty careful around machinery but livestock can be so unpredictable. DH had had some great escapes while working cattle, PTL. I’m always glad when we are done sorting and loading cattle.
Large animal vet ... yep, high potential for getting messed up.
I was surprised that farming and ranching stats did not cite work with livestock.
DH, DS 1 and 2 and FIL are pretty careful around machinery but livestock can be so unpredictable. DH had had some great escapes while working cattle, PTL. I’m always glad when we are done sorting and loading cattle.
The guys in the photos out at the end of a beam were most often, if not always, the “connectors” (although they were staged photos, there was nothing for them to do at the end of the beam). They were also the guys that scampered up the tall columns to hook up the arriving beams.
Connecting was the riskiest of all the jobs. I did the rest of it but due to a busted hip a few years earlier, did not volunteer for connecting.
It was often challenging work and most of it was enjoyable.
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